Cooking stove



June 19, 1923'.

1,458,981 M. A. KELLER COOKING ST V Filed Aug. '7, 1922 attomwq Patented June 19, 1923.

MARY A. K LLER, on wmonmavrmnnsoimrcoo zme s'rovn.

' 'f Application inea August, 7, 1322. Serial No. 580,184

To all 107mm it'may concern:

TB e it known "that; I, MARY A. KELL R, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of \Vinona, in the county of Winona and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements vin Cooking Stoves, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to gas or vapor burning stoves, and has for an object the provision of novel means for facilitating the placing of cooking utensils such as kettles and the like on the burners of the stove, and the removal of. those that are in the rear portion of the stove.

-With stoves of this character now in common use, the shelf is usually so low as to make it inconvenient, if not almost wholly impossible, to lift kettles or cooking utensils from the burners at the back of the stove, over the kettles that are on the front burners, and it is usually necessary to remove the kettles from the front burners to accomplish the removal of those at the rear.

The shelf usually interferes with the elevation of the kettles-at the rear,-and they cannot be taken from the end of the stove, owing to the presence of the shelf supporting bracket or what may be termed a side board that extends beyond the center, and in some constructions, wholly beyond the line of the rear burners.

Furthermore, in constructions now in in common use, the shelf usually rests on the oven or in such close proximity thereto as to leave no clearance for placing plates or the like, on the oven under the shelf.

It is an object of this invention to provide a novel shelf supporting device which will hold the oven at such height with regard to the burners, as to permit kettles or cooking utensils to be applied to the rear burners over thekettles or cooking utensils that are on the front burners; and furthermore, to provide means by which the said kettles can he slid from the end of the burner section, without disturbing the cooking utensils on the front burners.

It is a further object of this invention to provide novel means by which the shelf is supported at its ends-and between its ends,- in order that it will sustain unusual weights when dishes or the like have been placed on them.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the details of elevation. 1

In these drawings, 5 denotes the usual, burner area, 6 the oven, and it is to be unconstruction, and in the arrangement and eombi-nationei p artsto be hereinaaeamo e fully setffo'rth'and tjlaim' dg' 111 describing the amend-6min detail refsame Win be had to th m may g Figure 2 illustrates an end view of, the

back and shelf showing the side board in derstood that in the manufacture of these stoves, the oven may be placed at the end now occupied by the burners, and the'burners would, of course, be on the end now occupied by the oven. It is known in the art that stoves are made With this interchange able feature, so that the inventor does not wish to be limited with respect to the arrangement illustrated. i f

A back members? is of ordinary construction, encept that it'is higher than those ordinarlly employed, and one end is pro-t vided with a flange 8 of relatively narrow dimensions which terminates at the top and bottom in-bracket-like elements 9 and 10' respectively.

The bracket element" 10 rests on the stove,

whereas the bracket element 9 .supportsthe shelf 11 at one end. The opposite-end of the shelf is supported by a bracket 12 that is interposed between the oven and the shelf for holding the said shelf in spaced relation to the oven. As a means forisupporting the shelf between its ends, a bracket is interposed between the oven and the said bracket, and it has a head 13 which is.rela-" tively long to produce a bearing surface on which the shelf may rest, and the said bracket has a foot 14 resting on the" oven near its edge. i

the side board which is relatively narrow, leaves a clearance at the rear of the burner section of the stove for the purpose'indicated. Y i i 'drawingsziormingj part of thisiapplicationf wherein like: character's denote corresponding parts" *iirthe" several 7 The cost of constructing a stove in accordan'ce with this invention will not be materially greater than stoves made in the ordinary way, whereas it is believed that the advantages resulting from the structure will be appreciated as being of a marked character.

I claim:

1. In a cooking stove, av burner section :and an oven adjacent thereto, aback section ,Wardlyat the top and bottom of the back atone end, one of the said brackets resting on the burner section and constituting a shelf above the oven in spaced relation thereto. I

2. In a cooking stove, a burner section and an oven adjacent thereto, a back section supported at the back of the oven and burner section, a bracket at the top and bottom ofnthe back section at one end, a shelf supported by the top bracket, the lower bracket resting on the burner section to act as a support for theback section, a bracket interposed between. the oven 'and the shelf and resting on the oven at the end of the shelf, and a bracket interposed between the shelf and the oven resting on the said oven between theends of the shelf.

' MARY A. KELLER. 

